October 24, 2006
Writing across the Curriculum Committee Meeting
Rick, Leonard, Jean, Barb, David, Mark, Alan, Michele in attendance
1. Minutes approved
2. Mark: Plan B
• Temple and Mark signed letters
• Send out letters all at once for Heritage: Spring and Fall teachers who didn’t atte4nd the August Workshop
• Exceptions for Heritage in a packet: proposal form to cover the absence
3. Outreach:
• No more proposals: Oct. 27 deadline for people teaching Fall 07
• End of January deadlines for people teaching Spring 08
• Paper copies of form
• Review access to database in blog
• Standard campus login: writing curriculum submission
• Click to view
• Hard copies to review?
• Which copy to save, email: look over before the meeting: form, proposals, etc.
• Start as soon as we can to review
• Process: first couple meet as a committee then send to the subgroup to review: Alan, Jean, Rick and Maria (co-chairs)
4. Proposals: Fall schedule:
• Oct. 31 schedules from registrar to dept. chairs
Nov. 14 to division chairs, Nov. 28 back to the registrar. In spring, advisory is mar. 26, April 16 is registration. Get them in by Mar. 26.
• January 31- Feb. 28 review for Spring 07-08
• Letter to the dept.: think about WI courses Oct. 31
• Caps for WI courses 22 students
• Submit a proposal, blog courses, certification list, emergency certification, list of courses.
• May need a separate list for WI courses for students
• Feb. our committee approval and registrar
5. Records: Should we have an archive list and notes to self: Jean and Mark will organize with blog
6. Recognize excellence:
• planning: Leonard: testimonials of positive experience in workshop for next August
7. Assessment:
• Freshman baseline scoring
• Student surveys from other schools
• Faculty survey
• End of the year assessment: non-heritage
• Oral history: where in the curriculum are they getting exposure, methodologies, subject matter, world views
8. Special questions:
• Leonard: Fine arts question: Distribution requirements don’t have to carry WI: role the fine arts into the curriculum/theory/cultural perception
• SPS: physically impossible for those instructors: money to do the SPS workshop: work with Jim I. on this issue: how many and what world be good timing; safety value to pick up adjuncts.
Respectfully submitted,
Barbara Short